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To: tejek who wrote (707174)	4/3/2013 11:50:27 AM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583515

>Okay. But according to the article that inode posted to me part of the reason Reagan succeeded in bringing the Soviets down was due to his efforts at nuclear disarmament. He and Gorbachev worked on disarmament together. And conservatives HATED him at the time for that. -Z

To: tejek who wrote (707174)	4/3/2013 11:54:30 AM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583515

Like Dr. Carson, Senator Rubio Also Receives Racial AttacksApril 3, 2013 By JAVIER MANJARRES It is only a matter of time before the extreme racist fringe of the Liberal Democratic Party makes another feeble attempt to paint Senator Marco Rubio as just another “Uncle Juan” Hispanic that is out of touch with the general Hispanic community. Or as Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) put it, Rubio is “out of step with the Hispanic community” adding “he’s got views that are just offensive.” Wasserman Schultz and her liberal left are quick to attempt to set the narrative that Rubio is only pandering to the “Tea Party” and has abandoned his core Hispanic principles. Again, this is coming from a ‘caucasian’ American-Jew that lives in an exclusive gated-community within her congressional district, as opposed to Rubio, who still lives in his old working-class neighborhood comprised mostly of his fellow Hispanics. But like Dr. Ben Carson, who is at the center of a media attack that has labeled him an “Uncle Tom” black man because of his core conservative principles and beliefs, Rubio has also received his share of racial attacks. The core reason for the racial attacks on Rubio is because he does not tow the pro-Amnesty for illegal immigrants line that Spanish Language TV network Univision holds on the issue. After all, Rubio is not really “down with the struggle” when it comes to Hispanics because his family came from Cuba and received a pass to come to the U.S. legally, unlike his wife’s family or mine, whose families came from Colombia.(Sarasm) [iframe width="300" height="250" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" id="aswift_0" name="aswift_0" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: absolute; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; left: 0px; top: 0px;"][/iframe] You probably remember a few months ago, when a Univision executive called Rubio a Disney dwarf, a “slave boy” and a “fool.” But before that, Univision put out an egregious hit piece on Rubio regarding his Brother-in-laws’ past drug offenses, simply because Rubio would not appear on a particular Univision television program. Now we are starting to see a steady stream of racial attacks on Rubio, especially now that he is at the forefront of the immigration reform issue. And like Carson, Rubio is mostly getting the racial hits from his own race.

To: tejek who wrote (707174)	4/3/2013 12:00:29 PM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583515

>> The fall of an empire doesn't happen over nite. It takes decades. And that's true of the Soviet Union. Reagan played a role but so did every American president since WW II. You just don't know what you're talking about. Here is an AP story on the subject from '04. I know you're not a reader, but you might want to invest the time. The USSR would still exist today had it not been for Reagan. It might be weak (or maybe not), but it would still be around. By Associated Press MOSCOW -- He stunned the Soviet Union with his tough rhetoric, calling it an "evil empire" whose leaders gave themselves the "right to commit any crime." His famed "Star Wars" program drew the Soviets into a costly arms race it couldn't afford. His 1987 declaration to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at the Berlin Wall - "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" - was the ultimate challenge of the Cold War. Ronald Reagan's determination to destroy communism and the Soviet Union was a hallmark of his eight-year presidency, carried out through a harsh nuclear policy toward Moscow that softened only slightly when Gorbachev came to office. He is vividly remembered in Russia today as the force that precipitated the Soviet collapse. "Reagan bolstered the U.S. military might to ruin the Soviet economy, and he achieved his goal," said Gennady Gerasimov, who served as top spokesman for the Soviet Foreign Ministry during the 1980s. Reagan's agenda toward Moscow started shortly after the start of his first term - and marked a major departure from the mild detente of the Jimmy Carter administration. In 1981, Reagan backed his rhetoric with a trillion dollar defense buildup. U.S.-Soviet arms control talks collapsed, and the two nations targeted intermediate-range nuclear missiles at each other across the Iron Curtain in Europe. The deployment of the U.S. missiles in Europe rattled the Kremlin's nerves, because of the shorter time they needed to reach targets in the Soviet Union compared to intercontinental missiles deployed in the United States. In an even bigger shock to the Kremlin, Reagan in 1983 launched an effort to build a shield against intercontinental ballistic missiles involving space-based weapons. The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), dubbed "Star Wars," dumped the previous doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction that assumed that neither side would start a nuclear war because it would not be able to avoid imminent destruction. Even though Reagan's "Star Wars" never led to the deployment of an actual missile shield, it drew the Soviets into a costly effort to mount a response. Many analysts agree that the race drained Soviet coffers and triggered the economic difficulties that sped up the Soviet collapse in 1991. (i-node edit: Just as Reagan planned from the day of his speech announcing SDI). "Reagan's SDI was a very successful blackmail," Gerasimov told The Associated Press. "The Soviet Union tried to keep up pace with the U.S. military buildup, but the Soviet economy couldn't endure such competition." Yelena Bonner, the widow of Soviet dissident Nobel Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, praised Reagan for his tough course toward the Soviet Union. "I consider Ronald Reagan one of the greatest U.S. presidents since the World War II because of his staunch resistance to Communism and his efforts to defend human rights," Bonner said in a telephone interview from her home in Boston. "Reagan's policy was consistent and precise, and he had a great talent of choosing the right people for his administration." Former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, 61, remembered Reagan fondly for his humor and his toughness. "His phrase, 'evil empire,' became a household word in Russia," said Bukovsky, who now lives in Cambridge, England. "Russians like a staightforward person, be he enemy or friend. They despise a wishy-washy person." Retired Gen. Vladimir Dvorkin said that trying to field a response to Reagan's Star Wars had "certainly contributed" to Soviet economic demise but argued it didn't play the decisive role. "The Soviet economy was extremely inefficient and nothing could save it," said Dvorkin, a senior Soviet arms control negotiator during the 1980s. But Bonner said her husband - who had played a key role in designing Soviet nuclear weapons - believed that deploying U.S. missiles in Europe was necessary to bring the Soviet rulers back to the arms control talks. In December 1987, Reagan and Gorbachev signed a treaty that for the first time eliminated the entire class of intermediate-range missiles. "Reagan and Gorbachev helped end the Cold War," Gerasimov said. Associated Press writer Gerald Nadler in New York contributed to this report.

To: tejek who wrote (707174)

4/3/2013 12:19:51 PM

From: longnshort

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Islam’s Latest Fatwa Permitting Rape of Non-Muslim Women

Yet another Islamic cleric recently made it permissible for the Islamic fighters waging a jihad in Syria—politely known as “the opposition”—to rape the nation’s women.

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Salafi Sheikh Yasir al-‘Ajlawni, a Jordanian of origin who earlier lived in Damascus, Syria for 17 years, posted a YouTube video last week where he said he was preparing to issue a “legitimate fatwa” making it legal (in the eyes of Islam) for those Muslims fighting to topple secular president Bashar Assad and install Sharia law to “capture and have sex with” all non-Sunni women, specifically naming Assad’s own sect, the Alawites, as well as the Druze and several others, in short, all non-Sunnis and non-Muslims.

The sheikh used Islam’s legitimate Arabic term for these hapless, non-Muslim women, melk al-yamin, a phrase that appears in Islam’s sacred book, the Koran, and which is simply a reference to non-Muslim sex-slaves. For example, Koran 4:3 commands Muslim men to “Marry such women as seem good to you, two and three and four… or what your right hands possess.” Islam’s ulema, or “scholars,” are unanimously agreed that “what your right hands possess” is, according to Islamic law, simply a sex-slave. Linguistic evidence further suggests that she is seen more as an animal or a possession than a human—hence this inhuman fatwa.

Jordanian Sheih Yasir al-‘Ajlawni is certainly not the first cleric to legitimize the rape of infidel women in recent times. Calls to capture and rape non-Muslim women are appearing with increasing frequency from all corners of the Islamic world.

A few months earlier, Saudi preacher Muhammad al-Arifi also issued a fatwa allowing jihadi fighters to engage in “intercourse marriage” with captive Syrian women that lasts for a few hours “in order to give each fighter a turn”—also known as gang-rape.

Then there is Egyptian Sheikh Ishaq Huwaini, who once lectured on how infidel captives, or to use another term from the Koran, ghanima, the “spoils of war,” are to be distributed among the jihadis and taken to “the slave market, where slave-girls and concubines are sold.” He, too, referred to such women as “what your right hands possess,” saying: “You go to the market and buy her, and she becomes like your legal mate—though without a contract, a guardian, or any of that stuff—and this is agreed upon by the ulema…. In other words, when I want a sex-slave, I go to the market and pick whichever female I desire and buy her.”

Indeed, even some Muslim women advocate the enslavement and rape of fellow (non-Muslim) women… Continue reading.